On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 22:09:19 -0700, Yar Hwee Boon hboon@motionobj.com wrote:
Ahh.. A high bar - Delphi VCL controls. They probably have the best (functioning,) looking widgets :)
Yep. Leave it to Microsoft to turn around and say, "Time to start all over and do everything with these NEW APIs."
Are you referring to Squeak (Morphic, etc?) or Seaside?
Both. Morphic as the current graphical system, Tweak as the coming one, and Seaside as the web-based stuff. I'm optimistic about Tweak and Seaside but it's not there yet.
One factor might be that ExpressQuantumGrid is a commercial product and Delphi has a very strong group of developers selling controls. Will Seaside developers sustain such a group be it free or commercial?
Precisely. I doubt it. There's no money in it and part of the Squeak philosophy is for everything to be open and available all the time. I'm a big fan of open source, but as a user, I often don't want the source, and as a programmer I often don't want to give source away.
Anyway someone is working on such a collection for Seaside. Contributions can be more easily made once the basics are there.
That'll be good.